- Fiction, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975, Juvenile fiction, African Americans
Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and overwhelming.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Walter Dean Myers
- First published
- 1984
- Pages
- 309
- Publisher
- Collins, Follett Bound, Tandem Library
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780545055765
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“"Somebody must have told them suckers I was coming."”
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